492 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. [May 16, 



identify as Cacatna sanguined, Gould, from Northern Australia, 

 agreeing as it does in nearly every respect with his figure and with 

 Dr. Finsch's excellent description (/. s. c. p. 307). 



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Head of Cacatua sanguined. 



The third of our smaller white Cockatoos has also the lores and 

 front reddish, nearly as in C. sanguined ; but the usual naked space 

 round the eye is largely extended into a bare open space below it, as 

 shown in the accompanying figure (fig. 4), and is of a much deeper 

 blue than in C. ducorpsi. In this respect the bird resembles Lie- 

 metis nasica more than any other Cacatud. The crest resembles in 

 shape that of C. sdnguinea above spoken of. The feathers on the 

 head, neck, and partly on the belly are tinged with rosy red at their 

 bases. 



We purchased this bird of Mr. Jamrach on the 2nd of June, 

 1868. I determined it as O. goffini of Finsch, and so entered it in 

 the register* ; but after again going into the subject I am con- 

 vinced that it cannot be that bird. Dr. Finsch gives as his diagnosis 

 of C. goffini (Papag. p. 309), " loris rubris nullis," which cannot be 

 reconciled with our bird ; and does not mention the peculiarity of 

 the large naked space below the eye, which could not have been 

 passed over by so accurate an observer, especially when he had seen 

 the bird alive, 



I am therefore, somewhat unwillingly, compelled to give a new 



* See P. Z. S. 1868, App. p. 645. 



